OK I now realise that this system is only half-baked and not intended to be a fully functional system but rather a system that needs to be customised for individual hardware. Unfortunately this doesn't seem to be as straight forward as windows.

Had a look at your sys-info report - did you defrag your ntfs partition b4 using puppy? If not you should.
Another thought is with all the pets installed - save-file space is a bit low, try expanding it, or use sfs’s as you did with Office.
Better still - you’ve got loads of hdd space - after defragging, use gparted to provide a couple of ext2 partitions, one for puppy(‘ys) of choice and another for files.
I would also suggest a modest swap partition of approx. 512mb to 1gig.
With the above done. your ram and processor setup should allow any puppy you care to use, to absolutely fly.

I appreciate you comments Ray but with respect, Puppy seems fine but there is an error in the browser re connecting to the net. It is so bad now that it is not worth running because it takes so many clicks to bring up a page. (I'm on WinXP SP3 now.)

How do I work through the process of what happens from booting Slacko to bringing up a page? Probably just a simple setting or maybe a file has run out of space.

I did do a defrag before I started and the log file should show that I increased the size of my pup_save.2fs by 50%. The whole configuration thing is not clear to me - I don't even recall being asked to configure anything.

Still, my preference is to save files where they are accessible irrespective of the operating system rather than on ext2. Can I mount the pup_save.2fs as a drive in WinXP? Seems like an easy way of saving my files.

in order to track down the reason for this issue I would recommend that you boot your PC from a CD containing the Slacko 55 iso (typing "puppy pfix=ram" at the first boot prompt).

This will help confirm whether or not the condition is caused by some other factor of the installation process.

If you get different symptoms then we can recommend some other steps as a means of re-installing. If you get the same symptoms that would indicate a bad download or some incompatibilty between Slacko55 and your hardware or router. If that is the case then you may well find a different puppy that does the job well. (As a trial I would recommend Pemasu's "Upup Raring 3.9.9.2" which seems quite stable on my hardware. Link here:http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=87374)

Even if you don't want to run a different puppy at least it may contribute to our understanding of what works and what doesn't.

Bear in mind that puppy is a cutdown operating system and the devs don't have access to all hardware so some trial and error may be necessary. Hopefully we can help you get a good puppy running on your machine.

Ok, I gather that hardware is good, clean contacts and in perfect working order just so we can eliminate that.

Also, just be sure you got a good download by checking the md5sum (checksum) available from the repo where you downloaded the iso.

We need to know exactly what device ID your interface has, so run this:

Code:

lspci -nn

Post the output please. If you know what your adapter is (usually it's easy to tell in the output, will say "Ethernet adapter" or similar) just post that part, or even just look for the HEX code that identifies your adapter, in the form of [vendorID:deviceID]
example: [10ec:8136]

Do a fresh boot and and post the output of dmesg. Probably the best way to do that is to run this:

Code:

dmesg > my-dmesg.txt
gzip my-demsg.txt

This will make a file called my-dmesg.txt.gz which is a gzipped archive and can be uploaded to the forum. Upload it.

Without these hard facts it's difficult to offer any diagnosis.

What we are looking for is that your driver gets loaded and is stable. If it is then the problem is elsewhere. We'll look at that when we can confirm that there is either an issue or not with the kernel loading your particular module._________________Puppy Linux Blog - contact me for access

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